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Katherine has some difficult decisions to make about favourite recordings of operas by Gaetano Donizetti.

The 2-CD set comes with a lavishly illustrated book including a complete libretto with an English translation. Jeremy Commons gives a detailed account of the story behind the opera and its composition.

Reviews

June 2014

Elder makes a persuasive case for Donizetti's early Romeo-and-Juliet-esque tale of warring families.

Katherine Cooper

18th April 2008

[This recording's] strengths lie in powerhouse performances from James Westman as Bonifacio and Massimo Giordano as Imelda's appalling brother Lamberto. Nicole Cabell's Imelda, though exquisite, seems disengaged in comparison. Mark Elder's conducting is wonderfully insistent, while the dark, period sound of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment adds immeasurably to the oppressive atmosphere of it all.